iPhone 5 has 'laser keyboard, holographic images'
US television station Fox 5 New York has aired a report in which it claims the iPhone 5 comes equipped with a laser keyboard and holographic projector. The claims appear in a news report, since posted to YouTube, in which reporter Lidia Curanaj meets fanbois queueing outside a New York Apple store. That part of the segment goes …
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If true...
..which I doubt, it would be a serious game changer.
If it was true then
If it were then even the fandroids would dump their Androids......
Re: If it was true then
"If it were then even the fandroids would dump their Androids......"
Yes we would but since it isn't, we won't.
Re: If true...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdIWKytq_q4
Re: If true...
And it still wouldn't be an Apple innovation as they have been done elsewhere. Wouldn't stop Apple patenting them though with the magic words....on a phone
Re: If it was true then
>> If it were then even the fandroids would dump their Androids......
If it were true, it would have already been around on Android for a year or two before Apple 'invented' it.
Re: If it was true then
"If it were then even the fandroids would dump their Androids......"
This Android user wouldn't.
Re: If true...
Erm, if true, you'd think they'd have mentioned it in the keynote.
Re: If true...
It would be patented.
Probably already is.
Re: If true...
Honestly?
Really?
S A P! I bet you have your idiotPhone5 already.
Re: If it was true then
True.
Android would definitely have it first.
Apple would add it 2 years later, and make it work properly and easily.
Samsung would modify the feature and make it work completely differently to the Stock Android version.
Re: If true...
"It would be patented.
Probably already is."
Actually laser keyboards are already being made so yes patents for that are out. You can already get mobiles with microprojectors and laser keyboards.
holograms are getting there but are not quiet ready to be built into mobiles yet. They could patent it but in all likelyhood the patent would expire before the technology get small and cheap enough to build in
Re: If true...
If true...
If what is true? That a Fox station took a fan wish list as a product description?
Surely nothing in the article even implied that the iPhone 5 has the laser keyboard or holographic display.
(Personally, I wouldn't find either feature attractive in a phone anyway. And I don't see what "game" would be changed - Apple would still be the Purveyor of Shiny, and if other manufacturers thought those features would drive significant additional sales, they'd add them too. All a big pile of dreary sameness.)
In Fox We Trust
With Fox's backing of this standard, Mitt Romney might well win the Presidency.
Made to make Fox look bad? So it's genuine Fox footage then...
Very true, it takes no effort to make fox look bad, they do it for you.
Ahh but...
..it can't be true, they didn't mention Communist China in every other sentence.
hahahaha
See, Apple, people actually lust for you to put new and exiting stuff into your products. Take that as a free hint.
If it actually had those features I'd eat humble pie and queue to buy it as well... but since it doesn't I'll simply mock both Fox and the Fanbois sleeping out in the cold to get a phone
Do these people sleeping outside the stores use holiday hours or something? Isn't the release not for another 3 days?
Only if you hold it between the index finger of your right hand, and left big toe, to your left ear while standing next to an Apple store
Another surprise feature
Error #2035
Looks like Apple won't allow Google browsers to see their phones.
Re: Another surprise feature
Just face facts, chrome is crap.
Re: Another surprise feature
You must work in marketing or something...
Re: Another surprise feature
No Chrome is crap in many ways. It's very nice and fast but the rendering still leaves a lot to be desired and it's pretty buggy.
Re: Another surprise feature
"Just face facts, chrome is crap."
You do realise that Chrome and Safari are basically the same thing? Go lookup 'webkit'. Fanboooiiii!!
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Safari renders like crap too .. or was that your point and I missed it ?
"...someone has gone to a lot of trouble to make Fox look bad..."
It doesn't take much effort to make Fox look bad. All you have to do is turn it on and wait a few minutes.
Someone, somehwere will be broken hearted ...
when they turn on their little iPhone 5 and find their laser keyboard and holographic projector don't work, will take it back for 'repairs'..
That's the problem with promising the world and not delivering.
Still, there is always Samsung's Galaxy Beam with a built-in projector. That actually works. Maybe a keyboard later?
Re: Someone, somehwere will be broken hearted ...
just buy the galaxy beam and this laser keyboard: http://www.amazon.com/Celluon-Magic-Projection-Keyboard-Touchpad/dp/B005ES6E6W and you too can experience fox news's iphone 5 "magic"
Re: Someone, somehwere will be broken hearted ...
Even if the phone doesn't deliver, people will *think* it does. After all, some folks were handed an iPhone 4S, told it was a 5, and talked about how much more awesome it was than their own 4S.
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/jimmy_kimmels_iphone_5_prank_hilariously_depressing
Interviewer: Thursday Why?
Interviewee: Well you know, iPhone 5 is the most amazing.. BEST Apple product everrr!
I feel sorry for him, I truly do. I hope that they would release an App to help me get along with his life!
He's right, it is the best Apple phone thing everrrrrr
Just not the best phone thing everrrrrr
Reminds me of South Park
Cartman: "It does email and web browsing and s**ts in Kyle's mouth? This is the greatest thing ever invented."
HumanCentiPad.
So what?
Even the supposed-to-be-cynical El Reg falls for fake Apple stories. (E.g. The screw story)
Re: So what?
You mean this one?
http://www.reghardware.com/2012/08/09/apple_said_to_be_redesigning_idevice_screws_again/
Which part does The Reg fall for it?
How many americans
Are now going to go "holy shit" buy an iPhone and then attempt to sue either Apple or Fox for not delivering the laser keyboard and holographic images.
Re: How many americans
Popcorn icon still needed!
Pint instead
Re: How many americans
Let's do a little calculating on the back of this envelope:
Republicans watch Fox and they constitute approximately 40% of Americans,
Of Republicans, some 50% are impoverished religious fanatics unable to afford an iPhone,
And 30% are tinfoil hat wearing paranoids unlikely to use mobile phones,
Which leaves us with (at most) 7% of the population, or about 21 million who will believe this broadcast equivalent of the Sun.
Anon because the Republicans are also gun-totin' NRA members.
WTF
Is there anything you will not publish if it has iPhone5 in the title?
I have an iPhone 4, I want an iPhone 5, but I do not want to read ever piece of crap about it
Re: WTF
yet you did..... and you even took the time to comment on the article!
Re: WTF
Is there anything you won't read if it has iPhone 5 in the title?
You want an iPhone 5, and will read every piece of crap published about it, but it's the Reg's fault that you're wasting your time.
Riiiiiiiiight...
Fox would not have been caught out like this ....
... had they used the iPhone 5's built in Internet bullshit detector
Re: Fox would not have been caught out like this ....
Nice idea in principle, but seeing as this is fox news, the bullshit detector would have burn't out after one day anyway, rendering it useless.
Re: Fox would not have been caught out like this ....
That would have been as helpful as a compass at the North Pole.
Re: Fox would not have been caught out like this ....
I have a mental picture of people walking through the door at Fox and their phones exploding in thier pockets.
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